This user-friendly textbook teaches students to understand and apply procedural steps in completing quantitative studies. It explains statistics while progressing through the steps of the hypothesis-testing process from hypothesis to results. The research problems used in the book reflect statistical applications related to interesting and important topics. In addition, the book provides a Research Analysis and Interpretation Guide to help students analyze research articles.

Designed as a hands-on resource, each chapter covers a single research problem and offers directions for implementing the research method from start to finish. Readers will learn how to:

Pinpoint research questions and hypotheses

Identify, classify, and operationally define the study variables

Choose appropriate research designs

Conduct power analysis

Select an appropriate statistic for the problem

Use a data set

Conduct data screening and analyses using SPSS

Interpret the statistics

Write the results related to the problem

Quantitative and Statistical Research Methods allows students to immediately, independently, and successfully apply quantitative methods to their own research projects.